In order to avoid having to list exceptions to the above posts statement, you are now required to sprinkle a bit of sugar on every icecube you consume.

AI slop has just accelerated the downfall of search engines. Attention based economy, advertising and SEO are the reason you can’t find anything useful anymore. The Internet itself is broken and even if there was a good search engine it would struggle to not suffocate in the seo crap out there.

Some ceramics heat up in the microwave. You have experienced this probably, whenever the bowl is searing hot but the food cold. That’s when a thing is not microwave safe.

When it’s microwave safe it won’t absorb the waves and won’t heat up.

Striezelmarkt in Dresden.

Ironically this specific market has a giant garage under the market

I think semicolon separated files should be named SSV

Hard disks may fragment when one tries to compact them. It will need to be defragmented afterwards.

Softer disks are more amenable to be compressed into compact disks, floppy ones work best.

This goes further than just pirated entertainment. Think of patents. “Nice chip you have there Apple, would be a shame if it were public domain now.”

The US’ most important good is intellectual property. They rely on other countries to protect their IP. If you no longer rely on them for trade because theyre tariffing the shit out of your country, you don’t need to appease them anymore by protecting their IP.